Religious

“Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively.” ~Sharon Salzberg It was the fifth night of my first silent retreat, and 100 of us spilled out of the meditation hall into darkness, flashlights swinging as we made our way along the path to our dorms and sleep. Suddenly the wind […]

The marble tile felt cold and hard against the side of my body as I lay sobbing and shaking on the floor. Some part of my mind nudged me to get to the couch, but I couldn’t. What did it matter? Tears kept flowing as my moans of “Why? Why? Why?” echoed through the room.

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“When we allow ourselves to be vulnerable, we are not pretending, we are not hiding—we are simply present with whatever is going on inside us. Ironically, it is this very feeling of authenticity that draws people to us, not the brittle effort of perfectionism.”  ~Maureen Cooper Most people in my life would call me an

“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.” ~Rumi The hardest battle I’ve fought is an ongoing one. It’s an all-consuming shadow of dread that never leaves, only resting long enough for me to catch my breath. I know what it feels like to be depressed. I know the feeling of pain and

“To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest. To live fully is to be always in no-man’s-land, to experience each moment as completely new and fresh. To live is to be willing to die over and over again. ” ~Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart I

“When you can’t look on the bright side, I will sit with you in the dark.” ~Unknown It’s hard and uncomfortable to sit with pain, our own or someone else’s. We don’t like to see people hurting, especially people we love, because we instinctively want to make them feel better, and we feel powerless if

“Staying sober really was the most important thing in my life now and had given me direction when I thought I had none.” ~Bradley Cooper I remember that exact feeling of shame that washed over me when I was filling Yeti water bottles with 100 proof vodka instead of water. Then I chugged it, all

“These mountains that you are carrying, you were only supposed to climb.” ~Najwa Zebian During a personal development course, one of my first assignments was to reach out to three friends and ask them to list my top three qualities. It was to help me see myself the way others saw me. At the time,

“Nothing is more revealing than movement.” ~Martha Graham It seems like only yesterday that I was at home with a newborn, a kindergartener, two dogs, and a husband who, just like me, was working from home, when we were thrown into the unthinkable COVID19 pandemic. It didn’t take long for the stress and tension to